I tried calling both Microsoft and Sega and got a firm "No Comment" from people.
Are you sure that wasn't the answering machine you got a "no comment" from, at 2AM?(11PM in Redmond, and suffice it to say pretty damn late wherever in the country Sega USA is located)
It seems to me the whole reason Catholic priests are found molesting little boys, or infected with AIDS, is that the church doesn't allow them an outlet on their sexual desires. And you say we shouldn't allow pedos an outlet on their desires? What do you think is gonna happen when you do that? Don't you think it'd be better to have someone jerk off to pictures of a virtual kid than go find or take pictures of a real kid, or worse?
What he is saying is he'll take the code, make small changes/additions, and use it for networking in his game. He says he's fully willing to give you the changes/additions he makes.
He's not willing to give you the rest of the game, which is not a change or addition to the code, but something completely separate. I hardly see how you can consider the algorithm powering his chess game a change to the networking code. It's completely separate, and he has a valid point that it's silly to expect him to open that code.
What you'll probably end up with is a chess game that has crappy networking code, and GPL networking code that isn't improved because the license on it is ridiculous. Big win for Open Source(TM)
Even with the NeXT acquisition, Apple is still pathetically slow in releasing new OS software. Mac OS X was due for release over two years ago. Where is it today? Still in beta.
I have made this point in some Mac forums just to play devil's advocate, but honestly, to be fair to Apple, they've done a lot with this OS that wasn't originally planned. MacOS X, as originally announced, was due to ship in Fall '99. What you may be thinking was going to ship in '98 was Rhapsody, which did ship, not too late, as MacOS X Server, in early '99.
MacOS X Server was most of the original promise of Rhapsody(they killed Rhapsody for Intel and YellowBox(aka Cocoa) for Windows). The problem was, even before MacOS X Server shipped, Apple had heard from the major developers that no one was very interested in taking their Classic MacOS apps and completely rewriting them for the YellowBox. There was something called the BlueBox, which is basically the same as Classic in MacOS X today, but it's not really an acceptable solution to have all your major apps running in an evironment that doesn't have all the advanced features of OS X.
I think Apple also heard that Rhapsody was too complex for most consumers. Many things have to be done at the command line, and that is simply unnacceptable to most Mac users. So Apple created MacOS X. The differences between Rhapsody and OS X are Carbon, Quartz and Aqua. It is these three things which I'm sure are consuming most of Apple's development time. They're complex projects, and will end up being very beneficial to users.
And no, I don't think you can compare OS X to Copland. Copland IIRC never got out of Alpha, while MacOS X is two months from shipping, and already very near release quality.
the higher end desktops actually use the 7450 processor(or G4+), which runs at up to 733MHz, as opposed the the 7410 in the lower end desktops and TiBook, which can only go up to 600MHz. the 7410 has a 4 stage pipeline and IIRC uses about 7 watts. the 7450 has a 7 stage pipeline(yeah, they increased it just like Motorola), a better Altivec unit(which means it absolutely cleans up in things like PS), and IIRC uses about 14 watts.
if you look at the heatsink/fan on the G4/733, you'll see that it's not going in a laptop - ever. now hopefully Apollo, the SOI version of the 7450, won't take too long to arrive. what that'll allow Moto to do is scale the processor in two directions. one thing you can do is up the clock speed by 30-35%. the other choice is to lower the power consumption by anywhere from 30-60%(the numbers we're hearing are varying a lot).
the upshot of all this is that we'll have faster G4s in the desktops and cooler G4s in the laptops. should be excellent
the rest of your post is crap(you have no idea what the margins on the TiBook are, Apple doesn't make the PPC so the lack of a speed increase wasn't their fault), as is this part, but I take special issue with it anyway:
BTW, the 15.2" screen is measured diagonally. I don't care if it's wide or tall, 15.2" is bigger than 15", which is bigger than most laptop screens
OK, do you understand the concept of area? It is from like 4th grade math. On a laptop screen, height x width = area. area is the total amount of screen real estate you have, and is therefore the most important thing.
Now a 4:3 ratio(width:height), with a 15" screen, would mean the screen is 12 inches wide and 9 inches tall. That means the total area is 12x9=108 square inches
Now a 3:2 ratio with a 15.2" screen would mean the screen is 12.65" wide and 8.43" tall. That means the total area is 106.6 square inches, or smaller than a normal 15" screen. So no, it really shouldn't be signficantly(if at all) more expensive.
When Steve Jobs says "We fucked up," you don't tell him off. I was astonished that he'd say something like that, but it's exactly what I like to hear. The fact that he admits it is terrific, because it means maybe he isn't such a stubborn idiot as he has been in the past.
Dulaney scoffed at the pricing, wondering how Apple could make any money on the Titanium.
Apple sells great products at high prices, and the analysts say the prices are too high. Apple sells great products at low prices, and the analysts say the prices are too low. I seriously doubt Apple is losing money on the PBG4. BTW, the 15" screen is a 3:2 ratio, so it's not really as big as a normal 15". IIRC, it's exactly the same height as the 14", but wider.
That is the sweetest laptop I have ever seen, and there are a lot of people who agree. Apple is gonna make a fortune off those things.
And BTW, Apple is now at 733MHz, and should be going higher soon.
The reason BeOS doesn't run on new Macs is that Gasse(sp?) hates Jobs. Simple as that.
Again, Be could have very easily used what LinuxPPC had done to get BeOS running on G3/G4s. I don't see LinuxPPC getting sued. Be chose not to. There was a post to this effect, I believe by an Apple engineer, that if Be took two people and worked for a week they could get BeOS running on the G3s.
Apple makes money on hardware, anyway, I doubt they'd care that much if Be stole away a few users.
Try again. Try 733MHz with dual probably coming within months. Still behind AMD and Intel, but not by as much, especially since the 7450(or G4+, or G4e, or V'Ger) can effectively process Altivec instructions twice as fast.
Once Moto moves to SOI(Apollo G4s) you should see speeds easily over 1GHz. SOI alone is supposed to give a 30% increase, and rumor is that Moto was already running procs at 800MHz, but Apple underclocked them because 800 was too hot.
All Moto needs to do at this point is keep the G4 in the same ballpark as x86. Apple can then do a couple things to keep up in performance:
MP - especially with OS X, this is a fairly viable option
Altivec - not only can Apple put pressure on devs to optimize, but they can(and will) optimize commonly-used parts of OS X, such as OpenGL
If Moto can do that, then we wait for G5. 64-bit, binary compatibility with the old stuff, starting at 2GHz, etc.
Apple certainly doesn't look as screwed as they did a month ago.
I'd thank God if we were. I have many times seen with my own eyes salespeople go up to people asking a question about a Mac, tell them incorrect information about its specs, and then steer them towards a PC.
I heard a guy one time tell a lady that the iMac didn't have Ethernet, and would she be interested in a PC that does?(hint: iMacs have always had 100mbit Ethernet) Also, I constantly hear salespeople tell customers that Macs have no software.
The other thing is that apparently no one in the entire store knows how to use a Mac, so they always sit there frozen or turned off. I have personally intervened probably five times where I overheard salespeople telling a customer something completely false about a Mac, and felt the need to say "actually..."
My guess is Apple retail sales would increase by at least 15% if salespeople would learn how to use a Mac, and stop criticizing them constantly.
Somehow I'm not seeing how shooting down missiles, possibly missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and aimed at cities with millions of people, would ever be considered horrible, whether it's done by man or robot.
Aww screw it. I've seen pretty good looking DVDs that have ~4 gigs of data. If you feel like taking the time, you could just rip a DVD, re-encode it down to a lower quality(but still damn good) and burn it. There you go, pirated DVDs for all. This is gonna kick ass.
That *is* the pioneer drive. However Apple did it, they got it a hell of a lot cheaper than Pioneer sells it. I doubt Apple's gonna sell it separate, so until someone else does, Apple is selling a computer with the drive cheaper than the drive itself.
Methinks all those people saying Macs are overpriced are eating crow because of that one(wait, I'm one of those people)
If you really read the page, a lot of it is satirical and someone should've realized something was up. e.g.:
"These electorates, always reluctant to adopt the rational thinking of the free trade extremists (who have, after all, proved their worth by being the world's wealthiest people, or hired by same), are the only real obstacle to the kind of progress and development that is considered most likely to benefit all."
"Does free trade mean a high growth rate?
There is no evidence at all that it does. There is evidence it does not..."
"Does free trade mean a better standard of living?
During the last thirty years, the U.S. market has been "opened" and deregulated more, and more quickly, than that of any other developed country. But the average hours worked per year in the U.S. increased greatly between 1980 and 1997, while in every other developed country but one, they declined. Compared with 1973, Americans must now work six weeks more per year to achieve the same standard of living--and not surprisingly, Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with their lives...."
"The WTO's purpose is to broaden and enforce global free trade. Global free trade already gives multinational corporations vast powers to enforce their will against democratic governments. Expanding these corporate powers--as the WTO intends to do in Seattle and beyond--will further cripple governments and make them even less able to protect their citizens from the ravages of those entities whose only aim is to grow richer and richer and richer."
etc.
BTW, if you haven't already, read the story at the NYT, it's really hilarious.
I believe the next launch time we could possibly make is 2014, which some people were hinting at, but if we don't hear something real damn soon it's not gonna happen.
After that, IIRC the sweet spots come every 7 years or so, so I really hope we start working on this now.
I think all these stories about pie-in-the-sky technology that we won't see for decades, if ever, is entirely the wrong direction to focus attention.
I want NASA to go to Mars, not in 50 years, not in 20 years...now, or 5 years ago even better. We have the ability and to go, we have a plan(Mars direct). All we need is some vision: from our representatives in Congress and from the public.
I'm sick of waiting and I'm sick of watching NASA shoot little AIBOs at that planet and then watching them crash and burn. Spend some money, build a good, safe ship, and send some people there. But for god's sake do it now. Everyone thinks it would be hard, and they'd rather it be easy. Well guess what, it will get easy, once we do it 100 or 1000 times.
And while I have nothing against ISS, that $60 billion could have got us a round-trip ticket to Mars, instead of Mir2.
I never said I like Aqua. In fact I don't. It looks pretty, but it really isn't as functional as the OS 9 GUI.
But still, the prospect of having a stable, modern underpinning to the OS is very appealing.
I'm hoping that Apple will change Aqua a bit before the final(we should see the results at MWSF) and also that they will release tools to allow 3rd parties to create themes that can drastically change the interface. I will almost certainly not be using the default Aqua scheme(even if they give me an Apple menu and trash the dock, it's way too bright).
If Steve Jobs doesn't give some serious, concrete info on OS X at MWSF(i.e. ship date, improvements since PB, carbonized apps), he will be killed by the crowd.
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they got it from the Dada engine. they seem to be using the "postmodernism" generation. pretty funny, actually, if it didn't waste so much bandwidth.
get it yourself, here:
http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/dada-1.03.tar.gz
I tried calling both Microsoft and Sega and got a firm "No Comment" from people.
Are you sure that wasn't the answering machine you got a "no comment" from, at 2AM?(11PM in Redmond, and suffice it to say pretty damn late wherever in the country Sega USA is located)
It seems to me the whole reason Catholic priests are found molesting little boys, or infected with AIDS, is that the church doesn't allow them an outlet on their sexual desires. And you say we shouldn't allow pedos an outlet on their desires? What do you think is gonna happen when you do that? Don't you think it'd be better to have someone jerk off to pictures of a virtual kid than go find or take pictures of a real kid, or worse?
What he is saying is he'll take the code, make small changes/additions, and use it for networking in his game. He says he's fully willing to give you the changes/additions he makes.
He's not willing to give you the rest of the game, which is not a change or addition to the code, but something completely separate. I hardly see how you can consider the algorithm powering his chess game a change to the networking code. It's completely separate, and he has a valid point that it's silly to expect him to open that code.
What you'll probably end up with is a chess game that has crappy networking code, and GPL networking code that isn't improved because the license on it is ridiculous. Big win for Open Source(TM)
Even with the NeXT acquisition, Apple is still pathetically slow in releasing new OS software. Mac OS X was due for release over two years ago. Where is it today? Still in beta.
I have made this point in some Mac forums just to play devil's advocate, but honestly, to be fair to Apple, they've done a lot with this OS that wasn't originally planned. MacOS X, as originally announced, was due to ship in Fall '99. What you may be thinking was going to ship in '98 was Rhapsody, which did ship, not too late, as MacOS X Server, in early '99.
MacOS X Server was most of the original promise of Rhapsody(they killed Rhapsody for Intel and YellowBox(aka Cocoa) for Windows). The problem was, even before MacOS X Server shipped, Apple had heard from the major developers that no one was very interested in taking their Classic MacOS apps and completely rewriting them for the YellowBox. There was something called the BlueBox, which is basically the same as Classic in MacOS X today, but it's not really an acceptable solution to have all your major apps running in an evironment that doesn't have all the advanced features of OS X.
I think Apple also heard that Rhapsody was too complex for most consumers. Many things have to be done at the command line, and that is simply unnacceptable to most Mac users. So Apple created MacOS X. The differences between Rhapsody and OS X are Carbon, Quartz and Aqua. It is these three things which I'm sure are consuming most of Apple's development time. They're complex projects, and will end up being very beneficial to users.
And no, I don't think you can compare OS X to Copland. Copland IIRC never got out of Alpha, while MacOS X is two months from shipping, and already very near release quality.
just to take issue with one of the points:
the higher end desktops actually use the 7450 processor(or G4+), which runs at up to 733MHz, as opposed the the 7410 in the lower end desktops and TiBook, which can only go up to 600MHz. the 7410 has a 4 stage pipeline and IIRC uses about 7 watts. the 7450 has a 7 stage pipeline(yeah, they increased it just like Motorola), a better Altivec unit(which means it absolutely cleans up in things like PS), and IIRC uses about 14 watts.
if you look at the heatsink/fan on the G4/733, you'll see that it's not going in a laptop - ever. now hopefully Apollo, the SOI version of the 7450, won't take too long to arrive. what that'll allow Moto to do is scale the processor in two directions. one thing you can do is up the clock speed by 30-35%. the other choice is to lower the power consumption by anywhere from 30-60%(the numbers we're hearing are varying a lot).
the upshot of all this is that we'll have faster G4s in the desktops and cooler G4s in the laptops. should be excellent
the rest of your post is crap(you have no idea what the margins on the TiBook are, Apple doesn't make the PPC so the lack of a speed increase wasn't their fault), as is this part, but I take special issue with it anyway:
BTW, the 15.2" screen is measured diagonally. I don't care if it's wide or tall, 15.2" is bigger than 15", which is bigger than most laptop screens
OK, do you understand the concept of area? It is from like 4th grade math. On a laptop screen, height x width = area. area is the total amount of screen real estate you have, and is therefore the most important thing.
Now a 4:3 ratio(width:height), with a 15" screen, would mean the screen is 12 inches wide and 9 inches tall. That means the total area is 12x9=108 square inches
Now a 3:2 ratio with a 15.2" screen would mean the screen is 12.65" wide and 8.43" tall. That means the total area is 106.6 square inches, or smaller than a normal 15" screen. So no, it really shouldn't be signficantly(if at all) more expensive.
When Steve Jobs says "We fucked up," you don't tell him off. I was astonished that he'd say something like that, but it's exactly what I like to hear. The fact that he admits it is terrific, because it means maybe he isn't such a stubborn idiot as he has been in the past.
Dulaney scoffed at the pricing, wondering how Apple could make any money on the Titanium.
Apple sells great products at high prices, and the analysts say the prices are too high. Apple sells great products at low prices, and the analysts say the prices are too low. I seriously doubt Apple is losing money on the PBG4. BTW, the 15" screen is a 3:2 ratio, so it's not really as big as a normal 15". IIRC, it's exactly the same height as the 14", but wider.
That is the sweetest laptop I have ever seen, and there are a lot of people who agree. Apple is gonna make a fortune off those things.
And BTW, Apple is now at 733MHz, and should be going higher soon.
The reason BeOS doesn't run on new Macs is that Gasse(sp?) hates Jobs. Simple as that.
Again, Be could have very easily used what LinuxPPC had done to get BeOS running on G3/G4s. I don't see LinuxPPC getting sued. Be chose not to. There was a post to this effect, I believe by an Apple engineer, that if Be took two people and worked for a week they could get BeOS running on the G3s.
Apple makes money on hardware, anyway, I doubt they'd care that much if Be stole away a few users.
Try again. Try 733MHz with dual probably coming within months. Still behind AMD and Intel, but not by as much, especially since the 7450(or G4+, or G4e, or V'Ger) can effectively process Altivec instructions twice as fast.
Once Moto moves to SOI(Apollo G4s) you should see speeds easily over 1GHz. SOI alone is supposed to give a 30% increase, and rumor is that Moto was already running procs at 800MHz, but Apple underclocked them because 800 was too hot.
All Moto needs to do at this point is keep the G4 in the same ballpark as x86. Apple can then do a couple things to keep up in performance:
MP - especially with OS X, this is a fairly viable option
Altivec - not only can Apple put pressure on devs to optimize, but they can(and will) optimize commonly-used parts of OS X, such as OpenGL
If Moto can do that, then we wait for G5. 64-bit, binary compatibility with the old stuff, starting at 2GHz, etc.
Apple certainly doesn't look as screwed as they did a month ago.
I'd thank God if we were. I have many times seen with my own eyes salespeople go up to people asking a question about a Mac, tell them incorrect information about its specs, and then steer them towards a PC.
I heard a guy one time tell a lady that the iMac didn't have Ethernet, and would she be interested in a PC that does?(hint: iMacs have always had 100mbit Ethernet) Also, I constantly hear salespeople tell customers that Macs have no software.
The other thing is that apparently no one in the entire store knows how to use a Mac, so they always sit there frozen or turned off. I have personally intervened probably five times where I overheard salespeople telling a customer something completely false about a Mac, and felt the need to say "actually..."
My guess is Apple retail sales would increase by at least 15% if salespeople would learn how to use a Mac, and stop criticizing them constantly.
"searching for the most disturbing porn on the net"
Wouldn't that be the job of a Slashdot troll?
http://www.winternet.com/~radams/chall/
basically: it's a fake. you can tell it's fake just by reading it. the dialouge is worse than Tom Clany's
Somehow I'm not seeing how shooting down missiles, possibly missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and aimed at cities with millions of people, would ever be considered horrible, whether it's done by man or robot.
And no, Star Trek does not help your case.
Something with an event horizon is by definition a black hole, so if they are directly observing an event horizon, then it's a black hole.
Aww screw it. I've seen pretty good looking DVDs that have ~4 gigs of data. If you feel like taking the time, you could just rip a DVD, re-encode it down to a lower quality(but still damn good) and burn it. There you go, pirated DVDs for all. This is gonna kick ass.
That *is* the pioneer drive. However Apple did it, they got it a hell of a lot cheaper than Pioneer sells it. I doubt Apple's gonna sell it separate, so until someone else does, Apple is selling a computer with the drive cheaper than the drive itself.
Methinks all those people saying Macs are overpriced are eating crow because of that one(wait, I'm one of those people)
Considering that Apple doesn't make hard drives, that is really quite unfortunate.
If you really read the page, a lot of it is satirical and someone should've realized something was up. e.g.:
"These electorates, always reluctant to adopt the rational thinking of the free trade extremists (who have, after all, proved their worth by being the world's wealthiest people, or hired by same), are the only real obstacle to the kind of progress and development that is considered most likely to benefit all."
"Does free trade mean a high growth rate?
There is no evidence at all that it does. There is evidence it does not..."
"Does free trade mean a better standard of living?
During the last thirty years, the U.S. market has been "opened" and deregulated more, and more quickly, than that of any other developed country. But the average hours worked per year in the U.S. increased greatly between 1980 and 1997, while in every other developed country but one, they declined. Compared with 1973, Americans must now work six weeks more per year to achieve the same standard of living--and not surprisingly, Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with their lives...."
"The WTO's purpose is to broaden and enforce global free trade. Global free trade already gives multinational corporations vast powers to enforce their will against democratic governments. Expanding these corporate powers--as the WTO intends to do in Seattle and beyond--will further cripple governments and make them even less able to protect their citizens from the ravages of those entities whose only aim is to grow richer and richer and richer."
etc.
BTW, if you haven't already, read the story at the NYT, it's really hilarious.
I believe the next launch time we could possibly make is 2014, which some people were hinting at, but if we don't hear something real damn soon it's not gonna happen.
After that, IIRC the sweet spots come every 7 years or so, so I really hope we start working on this now.
I think all these stories about pie-in-the-sky technology that we won't see for decades, if ever, is entirely the wrong direction to focus attention.
I want NASA to go to Mars, not in 50 years, not in 20 years...now, or 5 years ago even better. We have the ability and to go, we have a plan(Mars direct). All we need is some vision: from our representatives in Congress and from the public.
I'm sick of waiting and I'm sick of watching NASA shoot little AIBOs at that planet and then watching them crash and burn. Spend some money, build a good, safe ship, and send some people there. But for god's sake do it now. Everyone thinks it would be hard, and they'd rather it be easy. Well guess what, it will get easy, once we do it 100 or 1000 times.
And while I have nothing against ISS, that $60 billion could have got us a round-trip ticket to Mars, instead of Mir2.
...except for the fact that the iMac came out almost a year after Apple killed the clones
I never said I like Aqua. In fact I don't. It looks pretty, but it really isn't as functional as the OS 9 GUI.
But still, the prospect of having a stable, modern underpinning to the OS is very appealing.
I'm hoping that Apple will change Aqua a bit before the final(we should see the results at MWSF) and also that they will release tools to allow 3rd parties to create themes that can drastically change the interface. I will almost certainly not be using the default Aqua scheme(even if they give me an Apple menu and trash the dock, it's way too bright).
If Steve Jobs doesn't give some serious, concrete info on OS X at MWSF(i.e. ship date, improvements since PB, carbonized apps), he will be killed by the crowd.
I am not joking.